He had tucked carefully under his arm a sphere of about thesize of a basketball and, if he had made it to my specifications, weighing thirty-five pounds.
He fished in this and withdrew a gray ball about the size of a golfball and set the box on the mantel.
His statue in full size can also be seen there, which is said to be a perfect image of him.
It is similar in design and in size to the Astra, but without the inflated stabilizers.
Greater power can be obtained either by increasing the size of the cylinder so that it can hold more of the carbureted air, making a greater explosion possible; or else by causing more frequent explosions.
To "row" in the air, on the other hand, would require oars of enormous size or else moving at a tremendous speed and a superhuman strength would be needed for moving them.
Beyond a certain size the airplane would require engines of such enormous size and power to support it that it would be practically impossible to build and operate them.
They were of the semi-rigid type, of only medium size and slow speed.
His dirigibles increased in size as he installed in each successive model a more powerful and consequently heavier motor, requiring greater lifting power.
Its extra lifting surface gives it remarkable climbing powers without increasing its size as a target.
In the first place, it is not possible to go on increasing the size of the airplane indefinitely, as is practically the case with the airship.
The supporting power of the wings depends partly on their size and partly on their rate of motion.
Now the gleam of hope lies in the circumstance that Mr. Chesterton knows the fine gradations of niceness (or nastiness) that distinguish mushrooms of one sizefrom mushrooms of another.
But in a city of any size some hundreds of people must daily become forty.
Then an idea came to me on a sudden, and turning to Mariani I asked him could he find me a sheet of paper of about the size of that letter held by Ramiro.
The Duca Valentino came with his retinue and the gentlemen of his household, among whom was ever conspicuous by his great size and red ugliness the Captain Ramiro del' Orca, who now seemed to act in many ways as Cesare's factotum.
As the city grew in sizeand as its great men became greater, the proportions of the people everywhere became less.
With them, the question of food or no food is dependent altogether upon the size of the cotton crop.
The workmen were paid by the ton, the amount they received depending on the selling price of steel billets of a specified size which they produced.
On the ground, across the front, we placed a log ten inches in diameter, and another of the same size parallel to it at the rear.
The bottom log was ten inches in diameter; others graduated in size up to five inches at the top.
They were about the size of kittens when a week old.
Illustration: The Beaver House] This beaver house was made of sticks of wood of varying size fastened together by mud.
I knew the cow, having often had her in my garden; knew her gait and the size of her feet, which struck me as a little large for the size of the body.
I should like to know how much food it took at one time to make an impression on him; I should like to know what effect an idea of ordinarysize had in his capacious head.
The size of the hole seemed to be determined by the reach of the roots of the tree.
I never saw him exactly angry, though I have seen his tail grow to an enormous size when a strange cat appeared upon his lawn.
At night there were great stories of achievement told by the cavernous fireplace; great latitude was permitted in the estimation of the size of particular drifts, but never any agreement was reached as to the "depth on a level.
As they climbed the top of a small hill the boys were surprised to see in front of them the outlying buildings of what seemed to be a town or city of some size and importance.
He was about thirty years old and carried his size and weight with an ease that showed the training of an athlete.
I know I'm little and perhaps my suit would not have fitted Miss Juanita as well as my friend Hamilton's, but it was not because of my size that unkind fate singled him out for the hero part and left me not so much as an understudy.
His hands were encased in lemon coloured gloves a size too large for him.
A solid, massive edifice, rising from a square, triangular, or other base, gradually diminishing in size till it ends in a point at the top.
The fruit has some resemblance to a short thick cucumber, about the size of a goose's egg; its taste is delicious and cooling; it has a stone in the centre, like that of a peach.
Three times a year, the nuts being about the size of a man's head, and of an oval form.
Principally upon wood; the boards or tables were prepared with a thin ground of chalk and size of some kind.
There are now scarcely any remaining of superior size and antiquity, but they vary from the largest size down to mere saplings; and their numbers seem to increase rather than diminish, there being many young trees springing up.
The form of the Cochineal is oval; it is about the size of a small pea, and has six legs armed with claws, and a trunk by which it sucks its nourishment.
No; it is a curious fact that the Egyptian pyramids, so celebrated for their size and great antiquity, should have the time of their erection and the names of their founders wrapt in such complete mystery.
On a bed of black velvet was a tiny convex mirror, about the size of a sixpence.
That's about the size of it," said Cherry Bim, rising.
The little ship behaved beautifully, and many a vessel twice her size would have been less comfortable.
Such of our goods as could not be conveniently stowed away in the chests were fitted on to the top, in whatever manner their size and weight admitted, each pony carrying about 140 lbs.
Though, perhaps, pretty exact in outline and general effect, the sketch I have made of this wonderful scene, will never convey to you a correct notion of the enormous scale of the distances, and size of its various features.
It was rather in form and colour than in size that these ice islets were remarkable; anything approaching to a real iceberg we neither saw, nor are we likely to see.
These are the detached hummocks which precede and announce the field ice; they increase in size and in number as we proceed.
As this rock is about the size of a dining-table, perfectly flat, and rising only a few feet above the level of the sea, to attempt to make it is like looking for a needle in a bottle of hay.
What was at first barely the size of a grain of fine gunpowder, is now become three and four inches long, sleek and fat, and for all the world looking like a young roasting lamb of Lilliputian breed, ready trussed up for cooking.
These species are remarkable for their size and shape.
It's just that evening clothes rarely reveal more than the size of a woman's shopping budget.
The leaflet was the sizeof a standard newspaper page, printed on both sides.
Though of smallsize comparatively, one of the best preserved is the temple of Chons, built by Rameses III.
The architectural design of the substructure is of the simplest kind, depending for its effect only on the size of the stones employed and the finish given to the masonry.
They are in three tiers, the two lowest consisting of bas-reliefs, the upper tier with life-size figures in niches, resting on corbels.
Madrid, is the most renowned--more, however, on account of its immense size than for its design.
In the houses of the wealthy Romans who had been converted, rooms were set apart for the reception of the faithful, and these may have been increased in size by the addition of side aisles.
In the United States the Arnold Arboretum at Boston ranks with Kew for size and completeness.
The front entrance was flanked on the left hand by a chamber known as the Pinacotheca, and on the right by a chamber intended probably to be a replica but subsequently curtailed in size in consequence of the proximity of another temple.
These were the bunk cabins of the miners; some of the diminutive structures being only of sizesufficient to accommodate a cot, a camp-stool and a wash-basin.
It was perceptibly larger; in the clear refractive sky of the tropics it seemed as if it were nearly a quarter the size of the moon.
And, indeed the moon a quarter full and sinking in the west was in its apparent size beyond comparison, but scarcely in all its breadth had it as much brightness now as the little circle of the strange new star.
The next night it had become a third the size of the moon before it set to English eyes, and the thaw was assured.
Holroyd was proud of his big dynamo, and expatiated upon its size and power to Azuma-zi until heaven knows what odd currents of thought that and the incessant whirling and shindy set up within the curly black cranium.
There is in Britain a fen of immense size which begins from the river Granta, not far from the city, which is named Grantchester .
Castles were not all of the same size or importance.
On the pasture-land and in the meadows the villein and cottier had the right to turn out a certain number of cattle, according to the size of their holdings.
In and round London most of the villages increased so much in size that the little old parish church was much too small for the population.
More attention was now paid to the size and convenience of the rooms.
When another bay was added, the size of the house was doubled, and so on.
Kallars of this group grow their hair long all over the head exactly like women, and both men and women enlarge the holes in the lobes of their ears to an extraordinary size by inserting rolls of palm-leaf into them.
Once upon a time, a Pandyan King had a silver vessel of enormous size made for the use of the palace, and superstitiously believed that its first contents should not be of an ordinary kind.
Kammalans and Acharapakam Chettis interdine; both bury their dead in a sitting posture; and the tali (marriage badge) used by both is alike in size and make, and unlike that used by the generality of the Beri Chetti caste.
A lad of diminutive size then creeps in, and opens the door for the elders.
There were plenty of stones of adequate size along the bed of the brook.
It seemed to me to be about the size that New York was in 1833.
It is easy to calculate the exhaustion of potential energy caused by the coming together of the matter of the sun from universal dispersion through infinite space to a sphere of uniform density of the present size of the sun.
He'll mend matters more that way than by showing his tun-shaped body in the piazza, as if everybody might measure his grievances by the sizeof his paunch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "size" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
